Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 16th Jul 2008 05:16 UTC
Gustav Duarte has written a three part article about the computer boot up process. The series starts with the Motherboard Chipsets and the Memory Map of an Intel computer and then he covers the processes that take place from the BIOS initialization to the boot loader. The final part is the coverage of the Kernel Boot Process.
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Flip, beep. That's how my Apple II sounded. Hardware is, today, about a zillion times faster than it was in back in 1977. But now it's "flip... go make breakfast... beep... log in..."
Where is "flip, beep" today? Resume from suspend takes about 20 seconds on my mid-tower.
Where is "flip, beep" today? Resume from suspend takes about 20 seconds on my mid-tower.
I don't know what hardware you're running, but ArchLinux takes less than 20 seconds for a full boot on my laptop and XP boots even quicker.
And my laptop - though new 9 months ago - is only a mid-range spec.
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2005-07-24
Flip, beep. That's how my Apple II sounded. Hardware is, today, about a zillion times faster than it was in back in 1977. But now it's "flip... go make breakfast... beep... log in..."
Where is "flip, beep" today? Resume from suspend takes about 20 seconds on my mid-tower.